A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
Don't mix wine and women.
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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